{"id":8386,"date":"2019-12-31T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=8386"},"modified":"2019-12-31T19:29:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T19:29:38","slug":"black-monday-kind-of-a-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/black-monday-kind-of-a-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Monday\u2019 Kind Of a Let Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As someone who loves to see grown men getting paid millions for doing a job poorly get their just desserts, the NFL\u2019s so-called \u201cBlack Monday\u201d was kind of a bummer. With two jobs already open (Washington Redskins and Carolina Panthers), we expected a veritable bloodbath Monday. Instead, what we\u2019ve gotten is measured responses, no shocks and no overreactions.
What\u2019s happened to this league? Where\u2019s the panic button? We\u2019re the franchise-saving desperation move?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact is, we only had two firings Sunday night\/Monday morning. Freddie Kitchens of the Cleveland Browns and Pat Shurmur of the New York Giants were both sent down the railroad with their hobo bindles as they rightly should have been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, after that, nobody?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerry Jones and his present head coach Jason Garrett are reportedly having a \u201csecond meeting\u201d Tuesday<\/a> about his job. A meeting about what? How quickly Garrett can clean out his desk? If this isn\u2019t a Bill Murray \u2013 Bobcat Goldthwait Scrooged<\/em> \u201cCode 9\u201d situation<\/a>, then what the hell is Jones doing? People talk about Jones being a difficult guy to work for and this being a job nobody wants, but I don\u2019t see it. Look at how he\u2019s agonizing over firing Garrett. You think that\u2019s a tough dude to punch a time card for? A man that\u2019s struggling to justify firing Jason effing Garrett?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s going to happen because it has to. But even that\u2019s not a shocker.
Guys that should have gotten canned, Dan Quinn in Atlanta and Matt Patricia in Detroit all got last-minute reprieves from the governor. Anthony Lynn\u2019s name was never mentioned as even being in danger with the Los Angeles Chargers and no one, not a soul, cared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other guys that have no business being a head coach in the NFL Mike McCarthy-ed their way into the playoffs thanks to superior rosters and each will flame out immediately, as they always do. I\u2019m looking at you Bill O\u2019Brien and Mike Vrabel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shad Khan seems to be holding off on firing Doug Marrone just because he\u2019s pissed that it got leaked that he was going to Sunday<\/a>. And here\u2019s the thing. I\u2019m not sure he should fire Marrone. Yeah. I wrote that. Like Adam Gase in New York, he\u2019s been dealt this hand from a previous regime. He might have a quarterback, he might not. But I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a bad coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Jon Gruden had any other name, any other owner and a sane contract, he would have been fired after this season. The Oakland Raiders have been flaming garbage scow all of 2019, literally beginning in the offseason when they unleashed a series of moves that defined the final year of their franchise\u2019s stint in Northern California. The only way it would have been worse is if they HADN\u2019T cut Antonio Brown. Jay Gruden, like Lynn and Vrabel, had no business being an NFL head coach in the first place so the fact he hung on the Redskins\u2019 back like an engorged tick for so long is an indictment of Dan Snyder, again, as the owner. To fight the reputation he\u2019d garnered for firing guys too quickly in the past, Snyder rode the team right into the cesspool with Gruden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second guy fired, Ron Rivera, shouldn\u2019t have been fired at all and if the Panthers don\u2019t nail his replacement, that\u2019s the end of them as a competing franchise for the next half decade. Rivera, as I was writing this, was officially hired by Redskins<\/a> and, for the first time since bringing in Mike Shanahan, Snyder will have a competent NFL head coach at the head of his team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cowboys were a natural fit for Rivera and, frankly, this is what Jerry Jones gets for dragging his feet. Or, it might be what keeps Garrett a job, giving Cowboys fans just one more reason to hate the Redskins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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